Review of Samurai Champloo

Samurai Champloo is by far one of my favourite animes of all time. It's the perfect mix of story, action, art and music. The whole anime has this really urban feel around the entire thing; the music, the characters, and the environment. The creators really managed to get the music and the story to flow really great. The combination is so fantastic that those annoying side episodes that take away from the plot aren't annoying at all. The story itself also actually has depth to it and this whole sort of intrigue has to who the sunflower samurai is and why Fuu wants to find him atall. And the characters are really in depth as well. So to speak, everyone has a history. And even though you know next to nothing about Mugen, Jin and Fuu you get really attached to them and you feel like you know all about their character.

And of course, the best part, the fightining. The fights have this great artistic fluidity to them, which comes from the style they're drawn in, but also the way they're animated. It's like this really great bloody dance. that's another great point to, there is a lot of blood. They don't try to suger coat the deaths at all which is what makes it great. And however odd it sounds even the spray of blood seems like it was perfectly planned.

Samurai Champloo is simply the most brutally artistic anime I have ever watched; and I love it!